A decree is issued prohibiting reelection of the president, the vice president, and the governors of the states of the Estados Unidos de México.

Zapata releases the Plan de Ayala, renouncing Madero and calling for distribution of one-third of the latifundios to the Mexican campesinos.

A congressional decree creates the federal Departamento del Trabajo (Department of Labor).

General Bernardo Reyes (former governor of Nuevo León) returns from the United States to rebel against Madero. He surrenders in Linares on 25 December and is confined in the military prison of Santiago Tlaltelolco in Mexico City on 28 December 1911.

Insurgents against Madero occupy Ciudad Juárez.

Pascual Orozco rises against Madero in the state of Chihuahua.

Insurgents against Madero impose themselves in Chihuahua.

Álvaro Obregón, municipal president of Huatabampo, recruits volunteers to fight against Orozco.

Government forces under the command of general Victoriano Huerta defeat Pascual Orozco in Bachimba.

Lieutenant Colonel Álvaro Obregón defeats Orozco in Ojitos.

General Félix Díaz, nephew of Porfirio Díaz, rises against Madero in the Port of Veracruz and is defeated on 23 October. He is confined in the penitentiary of the Distrito Federal, Mexico City.